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Student workers seek voluntary recognition of their unions by university administrators out of concern that political appointees may deny their unions legal status.

The agency announces that the fixed offices and staffing will be replaced with short-term expeditions to foster collaboration.

Including as few as two labs in a study improved the odds of getting the true effect size by as much as 23 percentage points, according to a replication model.

Testing treatments on mini tumors may save time in identifying which therapies work best, a new study shows.   

The watchdog website FDAAA TrialsTracker names and shames human studies that breach the FDA’s requirements for reporting results.

Scholars have formed a peer-review boycott to encourage journals to take a firm stance against requests to cull sensitive articles.

A few months after the American Chemical Society won its lawsuit against the pirate site, the game of virtual whack-a-mole continues.

The diagnostic measures two proteins indicative of brain injury.

A closer moon and ideal coastal conditions for tide pool formation may have started the evolutionary transition of tetrapods.

Stem cells and cancer cells have enough molecular similarities that the former can be used to trigger immunity against the latter.

Poecilia formosa, an all-female fish species, has a surprisingly robust genome. 

Funds for the NIH and NSF would stay flat, while some agencies, including the FDA and NASA, would see increases.